The horse-power for driving machinery



UNITED STATES PATENT- oEEIoE.

MILES o. MIX, 0E DANBY, NEW YORK.

THE HORSE-POWER FOR DRIVING MACHINERY.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 802, dated June 23,1888.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MILES C. MIX, of Danby, in the county of Tompkinsand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in the Manner ofArranging and Combining the Wheel and Pinion Gearing of 'Horse-Powers,by which the stability oi' the instrument is increased and the requisitespeed of the line or horizontal shaft is conveniently attained.

This machine is to be operated upon by horses attached to levers, theinner ends of which pass into loops, or saddles, on the upper side of arevolving ring; `this ring has on its lower side, three or four pinionswhich revolve on gudgeons, or pivots attached to it, Surrounding thesepinions there is a stationary ring or wheel, made fast to the permanentbed of the machine, and having teeth on the inside of its rim. Thepinions on the revolving ring gear into the teeth of this wheel, andalso into a center pinion, made fast to a plate of metal below therevolving ring, which plate of metal also revolves freely upon a roundpin, or gudgeon, rising vertically from the frame work of the machine.Upon the under side of the last mentioned plate there are two pinionsrevolving on center pins attached to it and gearing, like those on therevolving ring, into the teeth of the stationary wheel,

` which is made deep enough for that purpose. These two last pinionsgear also into a pinion made fast to another metallic plate below them,and which revolves freely on the pin or gudgeon upon which the superior`plate revolves. The periphery of this lower plate constitutes, orcarries a bevel, or crown wheel, which takes into a pinion on the lineshaft, to which it communicates a rapid m0- tion.

Figure l, in the accompanying drawing is a perspective view of themachine, Fig. 2 a

section acrossthelcenter thereof, and Figs.

Where correspondlng parts are shown the -same letters Aof reference areused.` Wheel, with the teeth on A, is a stationary 4the inside of itsrim. y A

B, is the revolving rings having the saddles', or staples, b, b, on itsupper side, to receive thelevers E, E; and on `its lower side thepinions,c, c, which gear into the wheel A, and into a center pinion, m,immediately under the plate C, and attached to the upper revolving platee, e, Figs. 2 and 5.

f, 1s the pin, or gudgeon, rising from the bed, or frame F, of themachine. g, g, are the two pinions upon the under slde of the plate e,e, gearing into the wheel A, and into a pinion L, on the lower plate z',i. The periphery of this plate j, j, constitutes a bevel, or crownwheel, which drives the pinion lc, on the line shaft Z, l, passingthrough the casing D, and terminating at d, In a universal joint, orother convenient appendage.

I amaware that gearing to a certain extent like that above described hasbeen employed in horse power, and other machines; but I have extendedthis gearing by the addition of the pinions on the lower side of theupper plate, and the consequent addition of the lower plate, with thepinion thereon, into which the two or more, pinions on the lower Side ofthe upper plate gears.

It is to this combination of the lower plate with its gearing asdescribed, acting in conjunction with the gearing above the upper plate,that I lay claim; but I do not claim the gearing above the upper plate,taken alone,

as of my invention. Y Y

MILES C. MIX. Witnesses: W. P. BURDICK,

MARTIN RICH.

